RIP Edmond Hilary
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Yes, sad stuff. My parents have picture on which he wrote to me and my brother and sister something rather nice.
A good article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/asia/11cnd-hillary.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
Mungo
A good article is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/world/asia/11cnd-hillary.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
Mungo
One of the most generous and humble gentlemen ever to walk this earth, he`ll be greatly missed.
I`ve read loads about him and some of his acomplishments are immense, excluding the obvious summit attempt of May 29th 1953. His generousity touched the lives of many across the world and especially the Nepalese.
A life filled with controversy and greatness and an often misunderstood person.
An inspiration to thousands including me from a very early age.
The Quintessential Kiwi
Rich
I`ve read loads about him and some of his acomplishments are immense, excluding the obvious summit attempt of May 29th 1953. His generousity touched the lives of many across the world and especially the Nepalese.
A life filled with controversy and greatness and an often misunderstood person.
An inspiration to thousands including me from a very early age.
The Quintessential Kiwi
Rich
Somehow they don't make them like that anymore. Fantastic man, fantastic attitude, fantastic achievements. A real role model if ever there was one. May he rest in peace.
He'll be remembered in history most for his summit of Everest, but IMO what says most about him was what he did for people in Nepal in the years since.
RIP
RIP
I've just read his obituary in the Saturday Indy. The man was pioneer spirit made flesh. He went to school in bare feet all through the year. Not because his family were poor because he just could. He dropped out of college because he preferred to work on his family's farm. He did major NZ peaks on a shoe-string. When doing Everest, and faced with a well dodgy snow face he simply told himself "now Ed, this is Everest, so you will just have to work a bit harder". What a man!
i heard talk of holding the funeral at the top of everest, but they're having trouble finding 6 people who'll carry him up
I don't think it is a sad day at all. He will be remembered as one of the greatest men that ever walked the planet, and boy did he walk some out of the way places! People should take heart of the fact that there are great people in the world willing to give up their own time to better people of a lower status than themselves, such as Edmund did in Nepal. He said himself that he had led a fantastic life, had two great wives, the first of which he lost through a plane crash and I think he did a lot of good with his time on earth. I went to Sir John Hunt Comprehensive in Plymouth, all of the classes were named after the expedition climbers, so I feel like I should pay homage to the guy and say that he was a great bloke.
Shambling Shaman
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The Times has quite a bit about him in their paper today. Bit late to buy one now if you haven't got it but it has a pull out section in the middle that is basically a reproduction of a supplement they made about him in 1953. Lots of interesting colour photographs. Interesting to see the gear they used and how skinny he was (skinny as me 
but I won't be climbing Everest 
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but I won't be climbing Everest ).
It's a shame that we pay more attention to someone - and consequently learn more about them - after they've gone. I for one didn't know about his work in Nepal and the schools etc that he organised there.
A good man who lived a good and full life, and one who I'm sure will be missed and remembered in equal measure.
A good man who lived a good and full life, and one who I'm sure will be missed and remembered in equal measure.
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